Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Medinat Mishtarah!

Demonstrators block a motorized police on a Jerusalem street.

Our entire Police State was totally paralyzed for 5 full hours yesterday afternoon. Hundreds of angry demonstrators blocked all major crossroads throughout the whole country. Police had raised the national alert level to Level 3 -- just one stage below a general state of emergency. The Mizrachnikes and Mitnachalim always tryed getting the frum Chareidim to go out and protest with them. For various reasons - which are so full of the regular filthy politics - they never joined forces. But this time, it was different. There was a secret ingredient filling those busy roads, packed with honking motorists. The secret that will awaken Sharon from his stubborn fantasies. The secret that brought all the Chareidim out of Me'ah Shearim. Yesterday, there was Action.

We where all standing at Knisat Lair. (The main entrance - and exit - to and from Jerusalem) 200 teens already got arrested. Arrested I said? I meant dragged and pulled, cruelly pushed and pressed into the tiny meter by meter cages, that fill the especially designed for Police Buggys. As far as my eyes could reach, I see cars. The traffic seems to be endless. Through the dark smoke we saw the black motor bikes coming towards us. Run! Run! Run! We all sprint away. Five minutes later, we return. A policeman tries dragging a 14 year old girl away. She pushed and screamed. She won.

The road is back open, the cars are literally moving inch by inch. Many wave orange flags through their windows. Yehudi Lo Megaresh Yehudi is echoing through the whole fighting field. Our orange army is getting wild. We all grab the metal barriers and block the street once again. Within seconds the police are chasing us. We run into the buildings, parks and gardens. The black motorbikes are chasing us. Brutally slapping, kicking kids. Young innocent kids, just standing quietly on the pavement and enjoying the action.

It's getting dark. Police are still there. The orange posters, flags and banners are proudly blowing through the air. The chanting starts again. Yehudi Lo Megaresh Yehudi, Yehudi Lo Megaresh Yehudi keeps on being shouted. All of us are singing, screaming and booh'ing. Within minutes the German Horses arrive. They chase us. Heavy geared police, wearing helmets and bullet proof shirts, large wooden clubs in their hands. Horses on horses. Brutally running around wild, slapping and beating everyone they could hit. Nazi, Nazi is now being shouted through the streets. Cat chases mouse, policeman chases kid. The sweat is dripping down our forehead, running like never before. Throwing stones and blocking traffic.

Towards midnight the place starts emptying. We all made our ways back home. 300 of our friends where arrested, and cruelly kept in very difficult conditions. Yet this morning they where all dancing lively and singing happily while entering the Masyahu Jail. They where asked to sign not to participate in any other rally, and they would be let free. Guess how many signed. Exactly, not one.

"One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." Yes, that's Martin Luther King Jr. speaking. Brave prisoners, my hat of to you all!

We have won. Sharon will finally open his stubborn eyes and face the harsh reality; His country will turn upside down, inside out. He'll grab the first possible oppurtunity, and he'll delay the pullout. Delay, forget and cancel. That's the plan. War has been declared, now let the action begin!

I won’t express my opinion on the real issue because I do not care enough about it to get in to an argument. But as for your wonderful reporting, keep it up kid and enjoy the action.

Whenever there is action around us frummers it always makes me smile that we have bought up a generation of police, ambulance and fireman chasers; be it boys or men and woman of any age. I guess with no TV around that’s the only action they will ever get.

No, I guess I don't. Apparently, the hamodia keeps the reports of heimishe ladies getting their sheitlech ripped off to a bare minimum. I have never been involved in a hafgana, and I hope never to be, either. It's still sickening, though.

The absolute whole world is going to Israel this week, it is soo cool Its gonna feel just like in the summer, quite and empty. Betwwen going to Russia on Rosh Hashana (What a blast for the boys :) and going to Israel on Lag Boamer it is actulla fun to be frum

Trust me - you would be outside rioting your head off!Besides, most of Israeli TV is totally left. So they would (almost) only show you what they want you to see, like the one driver that angrily came out of his car and crually helped the police. What they won't show you are the hundreds of cars that where hunking, singing and joining with us... You know what I mean?

won what?The pull-out will still happen. Most of the Israeli public still thinks it is the right thing to do.The settlers are now seen as worse than before because their methods (calling israeli soldiers nazis!) are bad, wrong, stupid evil.

These protests are fun for the participants. They cost the public money, time and stress.They achieve nothing for anyone.

Please G-d the pullout will be speedy, bloodless and soon.

The funniest thing is hearing you be happy over the union of chariedim and religious zionists. The settlers are super-pissed at the chareidim for voting with Sharon in favour of the disengagement. Even look at your previous post to see the gap between the ultra-orthodox and the religious zionists.

the chareidim want money, the settlers want land. only if and when the two collide do they cooperate.

Shame that the groups who claim to represent judaism just screw it up.

I live in Israel. Never been stuck in a traffic jam due to a demonstration, but I am sure that this doesn't create sympathy for the cause.

Police brutality is a problem all over the world, in Israel too. Are you against it in general, or only when it happens to you? I think that protesters who block traffic (no matter what the cause is) should be arrested with the minimal amount of force necessary, and no one should be assaulted unless they threaten violence themselves.

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